Example sentences of "[be] that [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other differences are that males have much longer finnage , and also a much more humped forehead . |
| 2 | The implications of this accelerated diffusion of technology and rapid translation into innovative products are that companies have very little time to rest on the strength of any one currently successful product . |
| 3 | The most certain features of Figure 9.10 are that Jupiter consists largely of hydrogen , that much of the interior is liquid/gas , that there is no atmosphere/surface interface , that there is some concentration towards the centre of icy and rocky substances ( this is required by the density versus depth ) , that the hydrogen exists in metallic form beyond a fairly modest depth , and that the interior is hot . |
| 4 | A frequent methodological problem in electrophysiological experiments has been that experimenters have either failed to exercise any control whatever over their subjects ' cognitive strategies or else have relied simply on instructions to subjects to engage in a particular mental activity . |
| 5 | Even though Darwinian evolution is represented as a competitive process , the outcome has often been that animals ended up working with each other . |
| 6 | The underlying philosophy has been that schools require more INSET to be school-focused , linking the enhancement of a teacher 's individual professional skills with the defined needs of the school as a whole ; and further that the capacities of a school staff to evaluate their own strengths and weaknesses must be improved and result directly in more effective forward planning to remedy recognized weaknesses . |
| 7 | It may be that Lewis does n't know he 's doing anything out of order , but some of the messages Lewis is delivering ai n't getting through , or at least not in one piece . ’ |
| 8 | Given this variation in language forms and use , the danger may be that teachers do not realise the extent of the variation , or that they regard the creole language forms as haphazard . |
| 9 | It may be that Taylor had again asked for a reduction of Royalty . |
| 10 | ‘ I happen to believe variety is the spice of life , it just happens to be that women end up victimising themselves a lot , or subjecting themselves to a lot of bullshit to get some sort of coverage . |
| 11 | It may be that Borg realised quite soon that family life was not going to carry him through the great silence left behind by his renunciation of that terrible drug , competitiveness . |
| 12 | The sole justification for Mustakimzade 's argument as it stands appears to be that Taskopruzade does not in fact use either the term as in the case of Molla Fenari , or simply the term mufti , as in the case of Fahreddin Acemi , saying rather that " the headship of teaching and of fetva and the office of the kadilik fell ultimately to [ Molla Yegan ] alter Molla Shams al-Din al-Fenari " . |
| 13 | The first may simply be that pupils have not mastered the skills necessary to pursue effective project work . |
| 14 | The assumption of those who decide where research money should go seems to be that surgeons do not need to participate in research ; they should be content to operate somewhere in the depths of the hospital and speak when spoken to . |
| 15 | I mean it may be that Ken has not drawn these up in the right way . |
| 16 | One may be that children do not have sufficient command of the skills of extracting information from a text . |
| 17 | O'Connor and Brown ( 1984 ) suggested that one explanation may be that Henderson did not differentiate between the actual support provided in terms of confiding and frequency of contact and the attachment felt for the person named . |
| 18 | but you see they reckon it were that Sandra do n't they ? |
| 19 | So it 's that Vibes question again . |
| 20 | The answer is that Morrissey has never quite achieved ten such desirable plaudits , even with his Smiths output chucked in . |
| 21 | Fifth , listen to the real customers — and not just the information systems managers of IBM 's 10 top mainframe customers — part of the problem is that IBM pays too much attention to their needs and not enough to what 's going on elsewhere , says Smith . |
| 22 | One of the bizarre things I find today is that England does n't really like traders . |
| 23 | But the sexist truth is that women do n't give a damn . |
| 24 | The effect of his successive encounters and discoveries — which are very sparse — is that things become more complicated , or rather , that they become increasingly difficult to describe , to ‘ capture ’ . |
| 25 | But the danger is that things get too cosy . |
| 26 | Eric writes from his perspective as well , and the common thread is that things do n't last — nothing lasts . ’ |
| 27 | Presumably the justification is that D has already crossed a high moral/social threshold in choosing to commit such a serious offence , and should therefore be held liable for whatever consequences ensue , however unforeseeable they may be . |
| 28 | The problem is that rock-climbers do all the hardest stuff in this game . |
| 29 | One argument to which the Government has no right to resort is that statistics do not matter . |
| 30 | The truth is that Cortot had neither the time nor the inclination to polish his performances to a high degree of perfection . |